Roasted Garlic

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5 from 2 votes

Prep Time10

Cook Time45

Total Time55

Course: Appetizer, Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine: American, Italian

Keyword: garlic, roasted garlic

Servings: Servings

Calories: 53kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

40 Cloves Garlic 4 small heads of garlic or 2 extra large heads. About 40 cloves of garlic in total.
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil

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Instructions

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit or 204 degrees Celcius.
Separate the cloves of garlic from the garlic stalk. Discard the stalk and all the extra paper that flakes off of the garlic.
Peel the garlic by smashing it on a cutting board with the back of a large knife or a pastry scraper.
Trim the hard papery end off of each clove of garlic with a knife. Don't trim too much off. You only want to cut off the part that looks dry and woody.
Remove all of the inner peel/paper from the garlic cloves. Sometimes, it will slide off easily when you are trimming the hard papery part off.
Put all of the trimmed and peeled garlic cloves in a small roasting pan and drizzle with Olive oil. Use a spoon to move the garlic cloves around in the pan and make sure that all cloves have been coated with the oil.
Cover the roasting pan with foil.
Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit or 204 degrees Celcius for 45 minutes.
After 45 minutes, remove from the oven and serve with crusty bread, add to pasta, or use to make compound butter. Enjoy!

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Notes

Why would you roast garlic?

The easy answer is because it tastes soooo good! While raw garlic has a very bitter and spicy taste to it, roasted garlic has a rich, buttery taste that goes with an endless number of things! It's so good that you can eat it all by itself, or you can smear it on bread, add it to pasta sauces, mix it into mashed potatoes, or use it to make compound butter!

How long does roasted garlic last?

Roasted garlic should be stored in the Olive oil that it was cooked in, in a sealed, airtight container, in the refrigerator. When stored properly, roasted garlic can last for about 2 weeks in the refrigerator. You can also freeze roasted garlic. Do so by mashing the garlic into a paste and then put the mashed garlic into an ice cube tray. Freeze until hard and then remove from the ice cube tray and place in a freezer bag for up to 3 months.

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